Best Drama movies of 1960s

Actors : Sondra Locke, Alan Arkin, Peter Mamakos, Chuck McCann,
Directors : Robert Ellis Miller,

When deaf mute Singer moves to a small city to be near his only friend confined in a hospital, he grows attached to his landlady's sensitive 16-year-old daughter.

Actors : Marina Vlady, Raoul Lévy, Roger Montsoret, Anny Duperey,
Directors : Jean-Luc Godard,

A day in the life of a Parisian housewife/prostitute, interspersed with musings on the Vietnam War and other contemporary issues.

Actors : Kin Sugai, Yoshitaka Zushi, Toshiyuki Tonomura, Shinsuke Minami,
Directors : Akira Kurosawa,

Various tales in the lives of Tokyo slum dwellers, including a mentally deficient young man obsessed with driving his own commuter trolley.

Actors : Deborah Kerr, Faye Dunaway, Richard Boone, Kirk Douglas,
Directors : Elia Kazan,

A suicidal advertising executive is forced to re-evaluate his life while dealing with his unhappy marriage, his mistress, and his aging father.

Actors : Anwar Hussain, Dev Anand, Leela Chitnis, Waheeda Rehman,
Directors : Vijay Anand,

A tour guide falls in love with a married woman, and helps her rediscover her love for dance.

Actors : Fabio Testi, Dominique Sanda, Helmut Berger, Lino Capolicchio,
Directors : Vittorio De Sica,

In the late 1930s, in Ferrara, Italy, the Finzi-Contini are one of the leading families, wealthy, aristocratic, urbane; they are also Jewish. Their adult children, Micol and Alberto, gather...

Actors : Jean Dasté, Ingrid Thulin, Geneviève Bujold, Yves Montand,
Directors : Alain Resnais,

Diego is one of the chief of the spanish Communist Party. He is travelling back to Paris (where he lives) from a mission in Madrid. He is arrested at the border for an identity check but ...

Actors : Susan Sarandon, Peter Boyle, Dennis Patrick, Patrick McDermott,
Directors : John G. Avildsen,

Bill, a wealthy businessman, confronts his junkie daughter's drug-dealing boyfriend; in the ensuing argument, Bill kills him. Panic-stricken, he wanders the streets and eventually stops at ...

Actors : Pearl Bailey, Diana Sands, Lee Grant, Beau Bridges,
Directors : Hal Ashby,

At the age of twenty-nine, Elgar Enders "runs away" from home. This running away consists of buying a building in a black ghetto in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn. Initially his ...

Actors : Oskar Werner, David Janssen, Laurence Olivier, Anthony Quinn,
Directors : Michael Anderson,

Ukrainian Archbishop Kiril Lakota is set free after two decades as a political prisoner in Siberia. He is brought to Rome by Fr. David Telemond, a troubled young priest who befriends him. ...

Actors : Titos Vandis, Giorgos Foundas, Jules Dassin, Melina Mercouri,
Directors : Jules Dassin,

An American scholar in Greece sets about improving the prostitute with whom he is infatuated.

Actors : James Mason, Anne Bancroft, Janine Gray, Peter Finch,
Directors : Jack Clayton,

Film screenwriter Jake Armitage and his wife Jo Armitage live in London with six of Jo's eight children, with the two eldest boys at boarding school. The children are spread over Jo's three...

Actors : Diane Varsi, Pat Hingle, Shelley Winters, Don Stroud,
Directors : Roger Corman,

A psychological gangster film based on fact. Machine gun totin' Ma Barker lead her family gang (her sons) on a crime spree in the Depression era. Her loyal brood have every perversion ...

Actors : Jean Shrimpton, Mark London, Paul Jones, William Job,
Directors : Peter Watkins,

Steven Shorter is the ultimate British music star. His music is listened to by everyone from pre-teens to grandparents. He has no trace of public bad habits or drug involvement. Everyone in...

Actors : Helmut Döring, Paul Glauer, Gisela Hertwig, Hertel Minkner,
Directors : Werner Herzog,

The inhabitants of an institution in a remote country rebel against their keepers. Their acts of rebellion are by turns humorous, boring and alarming. An allegory on the problematic nature ...

Actors : Rokkô Toura, Kei Satô, Kichiemon Nakamura, Nobuko Otowa,
Directors : Kaneto Shindô,

Two women are raped and killed by samurai soldiers. Soon they reappear as vengeful ghosts who seduce and brutally murder the passing samurai.

Actors : Michel Simon, Roger Carel, Paul Préboist, Luce Fabiole,
Directors : Claude Berri,

Claude is a Jew. Because of the risks of an arrest (France is occupied by the Nazis), his parents send him away to an elderly couple in the country. Pepe, the husband, is a Petain supporter...

Actors : Guy Frangin, Dominique Sanda, Jeanne Lobre, Claude Ollier,
Directors : Robert Bresson,

A young woman kills herself, leaving no explanation to her grief-stricken pawnbroker husband. We learn in flashback about how they met, married, and how she failed to adapt her lifestyle to...

Actors : Robert Mitchum, George Hamilton, George Peppard, Eleanor Parker,
Directors : Vincente Minnelli,

Dramatic story of the influential Hunnicutt family set in Texas during the late 1950s.

Actors : Larisa Kadochnikova, Spartak Bagashvili, Ivan Mykolaichuk, Tatyana Bestayeva,
Directors : Sergei Parajanov,

In a Carpathian village, Ivan falls in love with Marichka, the daughter of his father's killer. When tragedy befalls her, his grief lasts months; finally he rejoins the colorful life around...